anaheim-gazette 1934-09-06

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. WHAT KIND OF A PROPHET IS THIS? Long before Upton Sinclair dreamed of capturing the democratic gubernatorial nomination in California, long before England saw 1934 or Roosevelt conjured up his New Deal, Macaulay wrote with some condescension about our form of government: "It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always in a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when, in the state of New York, a multitude of people, none of whom has more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of a legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman teaching patience, respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith. On the other is a demagogue ranting about the tyranny of capitalists and usurists, and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink champagne and to ride in a carriage, while thousands of honest folks are in want of necessaries. Which of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a workingman who hears his children cry for more bread? I seriously apprehend that you will in some such season of adversity as I have described, do things which will prevent prosperity from returning; that you will act like people who should in a year of scarcity devour all the seed corn, and thus make the next a year, not of scarcity, but of absolute famine. There will be, I fear, spoilation. The spoilation will increase distress. The distress will produce fresh spoilation. There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor." 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I seriously apprehend that you will in some such season of adversity as I have described, do things which will prevent prosperity from returning; that you will act like people who should in a year of scarcity devour all the seed corn, and thus make the next a year, not of scarcity, but of absolute famine. There will be, I fear, spoilation. The spoilation will increase distress. The distress will produce fresh spoilation. There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor." Will we, by election of Demagogue Sinclair, prevent prosperity from returning to California? And, by any chance, are we following a national policy which will prevent return of prosperity? CHEER UP, LEGIONNAIRES Things could be worse. Maybe by the time the rest of the world gets around to communism, Russia and J. Frank Burke will be cured. "WHOSOEVER SHA'LL CAUSE ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES—" "Vice is a monster of so frightful mein, "As to be hated, needs but to be seen; "Yet seen too often, familiar with her face "We first endure, then pity, then embrace." —From Pope's "Essay on Man." Religious peoples of America—Protestants, Jews, Catholics—rose up in righteous indignation not long ago to demand cleaner motion pictures. They realize that a portion of the movie industry is catering to the salacious taste in an effort to promote box receipts. As one famous motion picture director stated two weeks ago: "The greater number of bath room scenes the greater number of patrons. It isn't more baths for cleanliness. It is the bigger the baths the bigger the gross." And it is just this attitude which the religious leaders of the country have set out to battle. Critics level their thunder at the portion of the movies which caters exclusively to the profit motive, realizing full well that the movies are a tremendous education force that can be used for good or bad. Tastes and habits are cultivated. A repeated yielding to salacious and debauching thought breaks down moral resistance to vice. These critics have interviewed children from all types of families, from every degree of society. All too frequently from wayward children, and from others as well, come pitiful stories of how the "movies make most anything seem all right. Things that look bad on the outside don't seem to be bad at all in the movies," according to a young delinquent. Said another: "Movies sorter coax a feller. You know you see them in the movies doing things, looks so easy. They get money easy in the movies, holdups, rob, if they make a mistake they get caught. A feller thinks he won't make a mistake if he tries it. I thought I could get the money, put it in a bank a long time and then use it later." Said a 16-year-old girl: "Those pictures with hot love-making in them; they make girls and have sitting together extreme forms compelled to or city, and Here it might tain rather life city, or even Usefulness department of cases referred of known kicks it has 4,400 exchanges w fingerprinting prints to identify evidence of the printing. Represented ed the issue is, shall the g the servant o frequently from wayward children, and from others as well, come pitiful stories of how the "movies make most anything seem all right. Things that look bad on the outside don't seem to be bad at all in the movies," according to a young delinquent. Said another: "Movies sorter coax a feller. You know you see them in the movies doing things, looks so easy. They get money easy in the movies, holdups, rob, if they make a mistake they get caught. A feller thinks he won't make a mistake if he tries it. I thought I could get the money, put it in a bank a long time and then use it later." Said a 16-year-old girl: "Those pictures with hot love-making in them; they make girls and boys sitting together to get up and walk out, go off somewhere, you know. Once I walked out with a boy before the picture was even over. We took a ride. But my friend, she all the time had to get up and go out with her boy friend." And a Boy Scout, after seeing a mystery play, said: "I didn't sleep for a week . . . I dreamed of skeletons." Home environment, churches and schools play important parts in training children. But the movies, by illustration, come along to paint the glories of crime, dramatize immoral scenes, degrading the tastes and morals of a people. The screen naturally cannot be blamed alone for the outbreak of crime in this country, but nobody ever will know the exact toll it has taken from human values, because its influence is insidious, dished up as entertainment. Some faint hearted attempts have been made to clean up the movies by frightened leaders of the industry. Will Hays, czar of moviedom, sat idly by and watched the debauchery grow until a nation-wide indignation brought him to some of his senses. Yet, instead of admitting their error and striving to merit their rightful place in American entertainment, the movies are reported to be raising a $2,000,000 slush fund to fight censorship. If this comparatively small sum, or any sum, will bribe and influence this nation to accept moral rot in movies because they are profitable, we have misjudged the temper and moral stamina of loyal Americans. CONSULT DAN CUPID Observers with an eye to the practical claim that next year there will be fewer marriages because it will be difficult to support the government and a wife on one income. UNCLE SAM EVENTUALLY WILL FINGERPRINT The recent campaign of the California department, American Legion, to eradicate radicalism in this state and in the United States, presages a precautionary measure which residents now look upon with mingled feelings. This measure, needless to say, is fingerprinting. Viewed calmly, any person will recognize that its advantages easily outweigh its disadvantages. We have become accustomed to roam the United States with out even the benefit, or bother, of a birth certificate. Consequently we have developed the psychology of forcing public officials to take our word for whether we were born in America, when and where. Only when we seek visas must we produce a birth certificate. Time was in the West when the word of a person to pay a bill was just about the gospel. However, with infiltration of strangers business men had to take precautionary measures, in order to keep from being victimized. With the introduction of checks, we at first accepted them unhesitatingly. With more incoming people, crooks among, them we were forced to insist upon knowing who was cashing the checks before risking our money on paper promises. We got used to such precautionary measures and now expect to cash a check only by proper identification. Any honest man recognizes the necessity of such measures. We soon must become accustomed to identifying ourselves by means of our fingerprints. Any honest person will have no legitimate objection to filing his fingerprints with Uncle Sam. It will serve many beneficial ends. In case of injury or death, those fingerprints might easily be the means of identification; there are numerous useful and constructive purposes they could serve. On the other hand, fingerprinting would help equip Uncle Sam with just the information he needs to deport radicals, aliens who have entered this country illegally, identification of criminals, apprehension of bandits and bootleggers who continually seek to cross state and international boundaries, and many other similar measures to protect society. The American version of fingerprinting would not take the extreme form it has in Europe, where visitors and tourists are compelled to visit the police station upon first entering a village or city, and leave fingerprint records and other information. Here it might become necessary to apply the requirement to certain rather large political subdivisions, but not to each town and city, or even county. Usefulness of fingerprinting was shown by the record of the department of justice last year in identifying 46.2 per cent of the cases referred to it, despite the fact that it has only 6,000 prints of known kidnapers, bank robbers, extortionists and racketeers; it has 4,400,000 prints of criminals, however, largely because of exchanges with 60 foreign countries which make a practice of... extreme form it has in Europe, where visitors and tourists are compelled to visit the police station upon first entering a village or city, and leave fingerprint records and other information. Here it might become necessary to apply the requirement to certain rather large political subdivisions, but not to each town and city, or even county. Usefulness of fingerprinting was shown by the record of the department of justice last year in identifying 46.2 per cent of the cases referred to it, despite the fact that it has only 6,000 prints of known kidnapers, bank robbers, extortionists and racketeers; it has 4,400,000 prints of criminals, however, largely because of exchanges with 60 foreign countries which make a practice of fingerprinting. During the past year the department used these prints to identify 265,128 persons charged with crimes — eloquent evidence of the usefulness, yes, even necessity, of general fingerprinting. CONDENSED SUMMARY Representative Florence Kahn of California recently condensed the issues of the campaign thusly: "The question is, shall the government be the servant of the people, or the people the servant of the government?" FIVE SENSES GUIDE GOOD DRIVER A good automobile driver must a sixth sense — since taste generally is conceded to be useless for this purpose, yet there are five senses remaining to guide him by. Let's look the senses over: 1. The observant driver realizes his sense of smell frequently informs him when the engine of his car is running too hot. 2. He knows his hearing is indispensable, not only to warn him of a car coming round a blind corner, but to keep track of potential and actual car troubles from noises manifesting themselves in various parts of his machine. 3. He understands that touch is a mighty handy sense in detecting flaws in brake performance or steering mechanism. 4. And sight, of course, he generally considers his paramount requisite. 5. But common sense is the most important of all. THE “GOVERNMENT” IS YOU If you, as a citizen, contemplating with whatever calmness you can muster the huge expenditures of the federal government for every purpose under the sun, will ask yourself some day, "who's going to pay the bill?" and then answer the question by saying, "I am, because there is nobody else to do it," you will be getting pretty close to the present situation as government affects you. You must also know what we are accustomed to call "the government," is not an abstract thing. It is just as personal as the cradle in your home, or the cracker dish. When the government, as we call it, ladles out billions of dollars for many projects, whether deserved or underserved, you or your children and your children's children after you, actually are putting up that money. If you do not know that and do not realize it fully, you cannot know nor realize anything very fully. OBSERVATIONS JUICY MORSEL People living in the area where cheap power and light furnished by a government feel as though they are benefited; but their property is taxed on the other hand to give them this benefits. NOTHING LEFT BUT THE JINGLE A fellow out on the firing line ups and says he believes, now that the government has stabilized silver at 50 cents an ounce and which may be raised to $1.29, they ought to buy domestic silver only. New mined silver. There is much silver in other countries that has very little value. For instance, we bought 10 tons of silver from foreign countries at 50 cents an ounce and China, India, Mexico and other countries had a hundred tons of the metal, what would we do with ours. If we put up as security for a new issue of currency, we might wake up with an awful headache, and an inflation hangover. HEY, FILL UP THE DINNER PAILS If the government bought domestic silver only hundreds of thousands of men would go to work here digging the metal out of the ground. That would make employment and employment is what this country needs right now. Giving charity to 10 million men only adds fuel to the domestic flames of distress. It is believed stabilization of domestic silver only would have many advantages. AND CONFIDENCE FLIES OUT THE WINDOW If the government goes into the business of furnishing light and power of what benefit will that be to the 10 million unemployed. And the utility companies will go into the discard. DOLLAR TAKING A DIP If it should come to pass that they go in for inflation in order to spend more money for the purpose of making more business, everybody and the cook is hoping that they will know when to start pegging, and no foolin... LEST WE FORGET When Germany's monetary system hit the toboggan it took a sackful of their marks to buy a loaf of bread. every purpose under the sun, will ask yourself some day, "who's going to pay the bill?" and then answer the question by saying, "I am, because there is nobody else to do it," you will be getting pretty close to the present situation as government affects you. You must also know what we are accustomed to call "the government," is not an abstract thing. It is just as personal as the cradle in your home, or the cracker dish. When the government, as we call it, ladles out billions of dollars for many projects, whether deserved or underserved, you or your children and your children's children after you, actually are putting up that money. If you do not know that and do not realize it fully, you cannot know nor realize anything very fully. And let's get down to the grass roots of all this expenditure of billions of dollars. Let's find out what it is all about and what it means. First, it is a stimulant as to the greater part of the money spent. If enough of these dollars can be put into circulation between now and the November election day, it will make a lot of people feel good who are not at all worried about having to pay the money back in the future. Now there can be no dispute as to the necessity of seeing that food, fuel and housing are provided for everybody that deserves it. There is some question, however, about making these provisions for a good many people who do not deserve it. Such a statement is rank heresy in these days of liberal spending; days when the barrel is open at both ends and grabbers at it are having the time of their lives. But supposing you are the ordinary decent type of citizen who has tried to save a little money for the rainy day, who has bought or is trying to buy a home for yourself and your brood, can you contemplate with any satisfaction the day that is sure to come if these unbounded expenditures of your money persist, when you will be unable to maintain your home because of the taxes of a score of kinds that will eat up your income? And the strange, weird business projects in which the government is engaging to eat up the national income. The Tennessee Valley Authority project will put out of business many power companies whose securities immediately will become almost worthless. There is government competing with business in a way that is injurious to public welfare. Not that there is much defense for some public utilities as such. Many of them have been so crooked that a snake by comparison is like a foot rul on the teacher's desk. But keep in mind when you hear that the government is engaged in that vast Tennessee enterprise in which untold thousands of persons will be put out of business to make room for untold thousands of others, that it is your money that is doing it. The government is you. DOLLAR TAKING A DIP If it should come to pass that they go in for inflation in order to spend more money for the purpose of making more business, everybody and the cook is hoping that they will know when to start pegging, and no foolin... LEST WE FORGET When Germany's monetary system hit the toboggan it took a sackful of their marks to buy a loaf of bread. BE CAREFUL, ELMER! LOOK OUT! Currency inflation in order to restore business is a good deal like a fellow astride a balky horse. The rider keeps hitting the animal with a whip to make him go and then, bingo, the horse bucks and jumps stiff legged, and the rider lands in the dirt on his neck. ANOTHER NEW DEAL The government has stabilized silver fixing the price of the metal at $1.29 an ounce at par with gold. Silver bullion on the world market sells for about 50 cents an ounce. The government will buy the metal, issue certificates, which will be put up as security and perhaps about one hundred million dollars of new currency will be issued. This the government believes will straighten out the economic dilemma. That is an interesting question. Many people believe this method is inflation. This nation obligates itself to maintain silver at $1.29 an ounce, while on the open market it sells for 50 cents and maybe less. It's got people guessing. A KNOCK OVER If the prices charged by the utility corporations for their product is too high, a government could regulate those prices through proper legislation. But is it fair for a government to compete with those private companies in business enterprises. That to a man up a tree destroys what is called individual initiative. History of Anaheim Officially Recorded In Minutes of Anaheim Water Company, Which are Copyrighted, 1932, by Anaheim Gazette, and Printed In Weekly Installments Town Hall, May 3, 1879. Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; all members present. Minutes of previous meeting read and approved. The zanjero stated that the list of April 12 for delivery of water was completed last night. The commissioner reported that the flume across the Yorba ditch has sunk several inches. Resolved: to have the same repaired forthwith, as also division gate in the Cajon ditch made uniform, for the better equality for the division of the water. The commissioner also stated that the Santa Ana Valley Irrigating company is making a new ditch to take out the water above the head of the Cajon ditch, but stated at the same time that the parties were willing to make arrangements with us to dam the entire river and divide the water equally with us. The following bills were ordered paid, to wit: Salary for the zanjero, $46; work on inside ditches, $3; earth work on flume, $26.75; Zeyn, $22.50 for services as zanjero; commissioner for work on Cajon Ditch, $146.32; less $4 in favor of the Anaheim Water company. Resolved: to pay the balance on lumber bill to A. Guy Smith of $743.24 by a note of $700 payable in 60 days or before with one per cent month interest, and the balance of $43.24 in cash; and Mr. Orflinger, $10 for damage by a break in the main ditch. and M. L. W. $9.50 ordered paid. Mr. R. Luedke surrendered 20 shares on Viney F-2. A communication from R. W. Scott was laid on the table. No water sold over for consideration. Adjourned. John Fischer, Secretary. Town Hall, May 17, 1879. Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company. Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; all members present. The zanjero reported that $54.50 worth of water had been delivered this week, notwithstanding that three big rocks are lying in the main ditch above flume No. 1, which ought to be removed, and that there were other places where the banks of the main ditch are 18 inches too low. Resolved: That the zanjero should go upon the main ditch and remain and see if it was not possible to bring more water and a regular amount to Anaheim. L. Drayson was then engaged at the rate of $2.00 a day, to distribute the water during the absence of the zanjero. A bill from Anaheim Gazette for advertising of $11, from A. Bailey for acknowledgements of $1, and from A. Langenberger of $149.38 for merchandise, ordered paid. A communication from the Santa Ana Valley Irrigating company was received and placed on file. Secretary instructed to answer. Water sold $135.50. 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The page contains several lines of text in a serif font, with some words and phrases highlighted in bold or underlined. The headings include "CERVATIONS," "FT BUT THE JINGLE," "TOWN Hall, May 10, 1879," "Town Hall, May 24, 1879," "Meeting of the board of directors of the Anaheim Water company," "Pres. Theo. Reiser in the chair; F. A. Korn absent," "Minutes of previous meeting read and approved." The body text discusses financial matters related to water supply and management, including payment details, commissioner reports, and administrative actions. The document is part of a historical newspaper collection, likely from the late 19th century, given the style and typography used. It includes references to specific individuals and organizations involved in the management of water resources in Anaheim, California. TAKING A DIP come to pass that they go in order to spend more purpose of making more body and the cook is they will know when to end no foolin... WE FORGET ny's monetary system it took a sackful of buy a loaf of bread. ELMER! LOOK OUT! nation in order to rea a good deal like a balky horse. The rider the animal with a whip and then, bingo, the jumps stiff legged, and on the dirt on his neck. NEW DEAL nt has stabilized silver of the metal at $1.29 with gold. Silver bulld market sells for about price. The government metal, issue certificates, but up as security and the hundred million dollar will be issued. Government believes will the economic dilemma. Esting question. Many this method is inflation. Agates itself to main-29 an ounce, while on it sells for 50 cents It's got people guess- OCK OVER charged by the utility their product is too moment could regulate tough proper legislation. A government to comp-private companies in es. That to a man up what is called individ- A bill for work in favor of Andrado of $54 was accepted and ordered paid. with $40.50 cash and $13.50 in stock for three shares. Bill for expenses of Geo. C. Knox, $5 THE BOOK the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which contains Four Great Treasures by BRUCE BARTON ACTS AND EPISTLES The peril of building up an organization around a single person is that when he dies or withdraws the organization falls to pieces. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man," but there have been many men eminent in their day who cast no such shadow. The good they did, as Marc Anthony said, is oft interred with their bones. Surely this process of disintegration, natural enough following the death of any leader, would be inevitable when Jesus. The Leader, had died a felon's death and the followers were unlettered peasants. The authorities at Jerusalem took this complacent point of view and rested easy. They received a rude shock within a very few days. Peter and John, in preaching on the streets of the city and performing deeds of healing, gathered crowds that interfered with traffic and caused them to be arrested. Thinking to overawe these simple fellows, the High Priest Annas and his colleagues presided personally at the trial. Picture their amazement when Peter broke into vigorous denunciation of them as the murderers of the Lord. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, . . . they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Those words deserve notice for the light they throw upon the figure and manner of the real Jesus as contrasted with the unsatisfying portraits of Him that have come down to us through the ages. Painters have painted Him and writers have written about Him as a "man of sorrows," a physical weakling, a "lamb," an unhappy man who was disappointed and glad to die. The conquering attitude of the disciples does not tally with such descriptions. The Bible does not say of them, "seeing the lamb-like character of Peter and John" or "seeing that Peter and John were men of sorrow and acquainted with grief," but "seeing the boldness of Peter and John" the authorities knew that such men must have been the friends and companions of Jesus. So characteristic was this boldness, so vigorous were the disciples in the propagation of the faith, that within less than twenty years the rulers of the far removed city of Thessalonica were troubled by the report that These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; . . . and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus. Only a little later, not more than forty years after the death of St. Paul, Pliny the Roman Governor of Bithynia is compelled to write to the Emperor Trajan for instructions as to how he may check the growth of this extraordinary new sect. Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co.